Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there are six people there are six of us could have a maybe |
| 2 | Daisy had once said that the three of them might spend a holiday together next year in San Gimignano . |
| 3 | TONIGHT one in five of us will have a sleepless night . |
| 4 | Whereas the district in which we live is under an agreement between the three great companies — the Midland being one — that not one of them shall promote a railway in the district without the consent of all three companies ; the continuation of the Bishop 's Castle line is now saddled with the further condition that it shall not be made independently of the Corvedale line , whereas a proposal was made by one of the largest shareholders in the Cambrian to complete it independently of any other line . |
| 5 | In each test , one of them would don a mask painted with either normal-sized eyes or extra-large ones , and then walk directly towards a basking iguana . |
| 6 | The basic purpose of the ranking is to equalize the workload among tutors and to determine which one of them will make a decision on each applicant . |
| 7 | They were known as ‘ bee grenades ’ , and just one of them could disperse a big group of enemies , who would flee leaving their modern weapons behind . |
| 8 | Any one of us may arrest a person who is , or who is reasonably suspected to be , in the act of committing an ‘ arrestable ’ offence . |
| 9 | I sing in a band , from time to time , a woman 's band , sort of a makeshift bossa nova affair , though not one of us can play a thing and we always need help from the boys . |
| 10 | And not one of us must say a word about what we have found . ’ |
| 11 | There 's always a chance that one of us will miss a telltale pattern or a problem somewhere . ’ |
| 12 | I mean every every one of us should have a copy . |
| 13 | If you perceive this could be a problem perhaps the two of you could discuss a contingency plan to deal with this . |
| 14 | To get the tyres out of the oven two of us would have a long rod each . |